"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." 

• Fear of the Unknown: Anxiety about what the future holds, leading to stress and uncertainty in your personal life.

• Self-Doubt: Doubts about your abilities and competence, especially when faced with new challenges.

• Burnout: Overcommitting to professional success can result in burnout and negatively impact personal life.

• Relationship Strain: Balancing a high-stress career with personal relationships can strain family and social connections.

• Identity Crisis: Struggling to define oneself beyond your professional achievements and status.

• Health and Well-being: Neglecting personal health and well-being due to the demands of a high-paying profession.

• Lack of Fulfillment: Feeling unfulfilled despite professional success, often leading to a search for greater meaning and purpose.

• Time Management: Difficulty in managing time effectively to address both professional and personal commitments.

There are parallels between the core principles of Performance Coaching Australia and those of a professional athlete:

• Learning to relax all the muscles through breath control.

• Slowing down the mind by only focussing on what you are doing each moment.

• Being in the present moment through focusing only on what you are doing right now i.e. cutting out thoughts of success or failure etc.

• Getting in 'the flow' or 'the zone' - a feeling of concentration without strain, where you ‘do’ without the feeling of doing.

• The mind is both the source of our problems and the source of the solution.

• Finding time to practice can be difficult and it’s very easy to become distracted, sleep in, make an excuse not to practice. 

• You’ll learn as has been handed down for 100’s of years, not read in a book or learnt on a short course. 

• Unlike an app, regular classes provide human connection. They are visceral and vital.

This teacher training is for two groups of people :

• Therapists (counsellors, psychologists, etc.) wishing to mentor and share practices with their clients

• Others who enjoy sharing and feel called to mentor others in meditation yoga 

The course will develop an understanding of the principles and application of the practices underlying meditation yoga, qualities of kindness and compassion.

• Pause : Take time for yourself each day. Meditation, breathing and sitting practices allow you to start the day with a mind that's anchored in the breath and the body. We carry this benefit with us into mental pauses within our day.

• Pivot : Yogic practices develop an awareness of our action-reaction world. We learn to pause and then pivot our response to external events in our lives.

• Merge : As we practice, pause and pivot we slowly begin to merge our attention with our inner awareness and an inner happiness arises for no particular reason. Mind Yoga sessions & practices are a way of remembering yourself rather than ‘changing’ yourself.

Ambition within meditation yoga is (almost) an oxymoron.

At first some goal, some direction, eagerness, ambition to succeed is required. Yet at some stage the ambition starts to impede the practice and we start getting in our own way. Then we have to start to let go a little, to surrender.

We are in what could be described as the beginning of a 'post alcoholic generation'.

In the past we might have said ‘have a drink’ or 'go and get drunk’ to feel better, to get over a situation, to think about something.

These days many people and the young in particular are more likely to go for a run or practice meditation yoga or tai chi to self-regulate their internal world of thoughts and emotions.

Mind. Body. Breath.

• Meditation is a way of remembering yourself rather than ‘changing’ yourself.

• Meditation Yoga is an inner yoga, a contemplative, integrative practice that engages the mind, body and breath in focused, intentional activity.

• Pauses begin to appear within our conditioned internal dialogue, cultivating a subtle internal awareness and helping us develop greater emotional maturity and empathy.

• Our reactiveness to the world around us begins to subside, and our ability to pivot in response to challenging life situations improves, increasing our capacity to choose that option which is most beneficial for all beings. We can live calmer, more measured lives.

• Meditation Yoga is a tantric yoga, a subtle ancient practice that has been refined and honed over the last 900yrs and is specifically intended for everyday, working people.

Who Practices Meditation Yoga ?

If you are browsing this site you are probably someone that:

• Wants relief from stress and live a more peaceful life.

• Wants to live more fully in the world.

• Likes to investigate and find out what works for them through practice.

Meditation Yoga Practitoners :

• Work with a teacher /coach to develop a ‘becoming’ in their practice.

• Learn, through practice, to anchor their attention in their bodies and breath.

• Do ‘Practice’ to develop inner peace rather than simoply read about it and wish for it.

• Use a series of practices developed and honed for over 900yrs.

• Eventually begin to realise your true nature as your habitual thinking subsides.

Contemplation :

• Contemplative practices help practitioners let go of everyday thoughts, develop calmness and stillness and then engage in everyday life. Incorporated into daily life, it can help us directly experience what we find most meaningful in our lives.

• Common to all systems of tantric contemplation is a sequential process, through practice, of refining the psycho-physiological systems of the body and mind.

• This has the effect of raising ones levels of awareness, discrimination and behaviour from what we might call lower states to higher states.

• There is almost unanimous agreement between traditional teachers of all cultures that practices obtained from a book are useless.

• They must be brought to life through a relationship with a qualified teacher and the lineage which that teacher represents.